By sea then the link could be made with Ireland
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Sunday, 5 February 2012
Lancashire and Yorkshire with the Midland Railway
Ever northwards the railway stretched to include the Midland and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways.
London and Birmingham Railway
Building the railways was a mammoth task and all completed with arm and muscle power. Here below we see Bourne and Camden in those early days. Tunnels weren't dug in the traditional manner, they were totally excavated then the lining built and covered then infilled over which the suburbs were built. Many beautiful structures which remain today and serve the high speed trains of the twentieth and twenty first centuries
Early LNWR locomotives
The Super D 0 8 0 goods locomotive
Below the diminutive coal tank which covered many suburban passenger services
Two early companies
Two early companies which were to become constituents of the LMS were the LNWR and it's predecessor the London and Birmingham Railway. From this little acorn did the mighty oak grow.
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